It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I am not sure what the film maker, laura greenfield, is going for here, but she fails miserably. a documentary about self involved, self indulgent and greedy people might sound like fun, but it's not. believe me. you won't feel a drop of sympathy for anyone here. one thing i did notice. ms. greenfield seems to blame her mother for her own shortcomings. her mother is having none of it. proceed at your own risk.

Generation Wealth (2018) was written and directed by Lauren Greenfield. This movie is hyped as being about the greed of modern society and what it does to the personality of wealthy people. It's not about that.This is a coming-of-age movie about the director and her parents. We see some interviews with women who are dissatisfied with their bodies, and who than have cosmetic surgery done. We see some interviews of women who have been hookers or porn stars or both.However, what we mostly see is Ms. Greenfield coming to grips with her mother. When her parents were divorced, Ms. Greenfield's mother left the children with their father. The got to see their mother every other weekend. In order to do this, they had to travel by plane to visit her, starting at ages five and seven.If this were truly a movie about greed, it might have worked. If this had been advertised as a movie about an adult confronting her mother about abandonment, it might have worked.It's neither of those. It's a self indulgent movie about a photographer who manages to hype her photo book while she tells her own story.This movie carries a terrible a IMDb rating of 5.7. Unfortunately, it's not that good.

Lauren's continues her unique life's work as the The Cuckoo in the Coal Mine of the legacy of America's baby boomer consumption generation -- me, me, me I want I want I want! No one and nothing embodies that more than Trump in the White House. This powerful film delivers the crystal clarity of the end of Rome -- it is what the melting iceberg is to the Climate crisis! must watch!

Photographer/Director Laurie Greenfield's Generation Wealth was extremely well-received at Austin's SXSW Film Festival (coming off of its appearances at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival). It is a remarkable cinematic journey as she revisits those she has photographed for previous projects which have often focused on excessive wealth. Greenfield eloquently captures the decaying of the American Dream as a form of corrupt capitalism has eaten away at American idealism and replaced it with a form extreme narcistic materialism. In many ways this film explains - while barely mentioning him - how this country could elect corrupt narcissist as its President. It describes a country where beauty, sex, fame, and status have all become commodities on sale to the highest bidder Greenfield takes it a step further by intriguingly adding herself and her own family as part of the story and suggesting that her careerism is also part of the problem. The photography is beautiful and provides a powerful narrative of the collapse of the American Dream. Highly recommended to all who care about the future of America. Greenfield should be commended for a work that is both personal and political.